2023/2024
March 20, 2024
Speaker: Dr. Rauna Kuokkanen – University of Lapland (Finland)
March 13, 2024
Title: “Follow the Bodies: Feminist Political Economy of War and Peace”
Speaker: Dr. Aida A. Hozić – University of Florida (USA)
February 14, 2024
Title: “Language tests as border work”
Speaker: Dr. Kamran Khan – University of Birmingham (UK)
November 22, 2023
Title: “Lesbian Utopias and Polish Nationalism, 1840-1940”
Speaker: Kamil Karczewski, PhD., Past & Present Fellow at the Institute of Historical Research, University of London
2022/2023
March 28, 2023
Title: “Untypical for a Transylvanian Lady? Gender and Nationalism in Modern Science”
Speaker: PD Dr. Borbala Zsuzsanna Török – Universität Wien (Austria)
March 13, 2023
Title: “Between Exoticism and Colonialism: Historicising Transylvania in Bram Stoker’s Dracula”
Speaker: Dr. Madeline Potter – University of York
March 8, 2023
Title: “‘Creolizing the Modern : Transylvania across Empires’ Book Talk“
Speaker: Dr. Anca Parvulescu and Dr. Manuela Boatcă
Feb 15 2023 3:30 pm
Title: “Unsetting the Structure: The Russia-Ukraine War”
Among other explanations, geopolitical justifications predominate the literature on why Russia invaded Ukraine. Join the CES for a discussion with Dr. Ibrahim Muradov , Dnipro University of Technology, Ukraine.
November 30, 2022
Title: “Roma in Ukraine between a Eurasian Past and a Euro-Atlantic Future“
Speaker: Prof Elena Marushiakova (Research Professor, School of History, University of St Andrews, United Kingdom)
November 2, 2022
Speaker: Dr. Vladyslava Moskalets, Historian and Researcher (Ukrainian Catholic University, Center for Urban History, Lviv, Ukraine
October 19, 2022
Speaker: Dr. Filiz Tutku Aydin , Assistant Professor, the Social Sciences University of Ankara
2021/2022
April 14, 2022
Title: “Mixed Messages: Mediating Native Belonging in Asian Russia“
Speaker: Dr. Kathryn E. Graber is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Central Eurasian Studies, Indiana University Bloomington
March 15, 2022
Speaker: Dr. Chunjie, Associate Professor German, UC Davis
March 7, 2022
Title: “Ukraine: Past, Present, Persistence“
Speaker: Dr. Tamara Krawchenko, School of Public Administration, UVic and Dr. Serhy Yekelchyk, Professor of History and Germanic & Slavic Studies, UVic
2020/2021
October 30, 2020
“Bloodlines: National Border Crossings and Antisemitism in Weimar Germany”
Robert Braun, University of California, Berkeley
February 12, 2021
“The Spectre of Populism: A Threat to Liberal Democracy?“
Oliver Schmidtke, Professor of Political Science, Director of the Centre for Global Studies, Jean Monnet Chair in European History and Politics, University of Victoria
February 22, 2021
“Local Suffrage Increases Citizenship Acquisition: Evidence from the European Union”
Hannah Alarian, Assistant Professor, University of Florida
March 24, 2021
“Internationalism, Curiosity and Violence: Questions of Race in the 1960s and 1970s Moscow”
Riikkamari Muhonen, PhD Candidate of History, Central European University
April 8, 2021
“Other Europes in Moments of Post-Otherness”
Dr. Regina Römhild, Professor, Institute for European Ethnography, Humboldt University of Berlin